The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, October 14, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 37 USPS 650-640
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansan staff
SCOTT BOOKER KAIRMAN
Bill Reindl, Lawrence freshman, demonstrates the use of a fighting sword on Michael Clayton, Lawrence graduate student, left. The sword was used as a defensive weapon by the KU Shotokan Karate Club in a karate exhibition at Templin Hall last night.
Above, Greg Earstow, Gardner, and Dave Lightner, Leawood senior, demonstrate one of the many types of karate kicks used in the art.
Research center touted
Bv DIANE SWANSON
Staff Reporter
A campus-based student resource and research center under consideration by a Student Senate ad hoc committee might be the way to make information on campus issues more accessible to KU students, according to Mikl Gordon, chairman of the committee.
It also could mean a raise in student fees
Gordon, an engineering senator and Senate executive secretary, said the center would be available to any student doing research in an area of higher education that directly affected
He said the center could be a depository for all Student Senate bills and legislation, as well as state and national legislation and other information that could affect students.
SOME EXAMPLES, he said, would be information on residence hall contracts, student membership on the Board of Regents, the energy consortium and the pros and cons of pre-registration at universities.
Gordon said he would suggest that the center become a regular fixture in the Senate budget and that perhaps 45 cents be added to each bill. He also noted that the approximate $15,000 early operating costs.
He said, however, that the center could be set up to request financing from the Senate as other members of the House would.
According to Gordon, a major portion of the income would be used to pay a full-time director.
"It may be cheaper to staff the center by students," Gordon said, "but you lose continuity. The research results also may not be looked on by educators." If the center were run by a full-time director."
Whether students should receive credit hours for research done at the center and how the center should be financed could be the major blocks to drawing up a proposal, Gordon said.
ANOTHER ISSUE would be where to put the Gordon said the Senate office was a leading
He said he would like to see the center tied directly to the Senate because that is where student research findings could best be used to help students.
The ad hoc committee, which will be discuss these problems, was established in August by Greg Snackne, student body president, after Gordon submitted a bill to amend the Senate rules to provide a governing rule for a Center for Student Interest Research.
The bill probably will be amended or rewritten, Gordon said, but at least the work has started.
The committee, which is open to all students, faculty and administrators, is planning to have its first meeting during the next two weeks to discuss the Senate's presidential ready to submit to the Senate next semester.
Information mailed to the KU Senate office three years ago first evoked interest in the request.
STEVE LEBEN, NOW chairman of the Legal Services Board, was student body president in 1977 when the University of Massachusetts at Boston launched a program to research and Advocacy publicized its center.
Leben said he and his vice president, Mike Harper, traveled to Amherst to look over the
"I was impressed with what the Student Center for Educational Research had done to prepare the senators with well-researched proposals on campus issues." Leben said.
"At KU," he said, "we've had to react to things as we go along. We never had the research available on a continual basis to prepare who want to plan changes for the future."
Leben said the current Senate committee were not well suited for in-depth research. The center also would provide the resources for students, who had particular issues they wanted to research but who did not want to become involved with the Student Senate, he said.
JANA SVOBODA, TOPEKA junior and staff in the school district said she would be in favor of such a research.
I think there is a lack of political information on issues that directly affect students available
She said that her student fee money already was spent on organizations she did not use, and that she would not mind paying a small fee for a research center.
Roderick Bremby, Leavenworth junior and vice president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said he could foresee residence hall residents using the research facilities and would be in favor of it as long as the cost was kept down.
Robin McClellan, Student Senate executive committee chairman, said the research center could provide the consistency and data base the Senate did not have.
"What was important three years ago and what may be important next month may not be important now, but we need someplace to keep information until it is needed again," she said.
Loren Busby, Nunemaker Five senator, said he could see advantages of a research center, but considering the cost, he didn't know whether it was necessary.
It will be windy and warm today with a high in the 80s, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be southerly at 15 to 20 mph.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a chance of thunderbows and a low neat 6
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-70s and a chance of thunder.
Weather
Finances and football tickets dominate the fiesta in Kansas Athletic Conference's first meeting of the season.
Ticket sales on KUAC agenda
Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum and instruction and a member of the KU ATC athletic board, said yesterday that she would ask about the plans for the administrators free passes to home football games.
the 60s and lows in the 30s or 48s.
The extended outlook shows a chance of rain and a high in the 60s for Friday.
The athletic board also will hear reports on public and student ticket sales, as well as an athletic department financial report. The report would be presented in the southeast lounge of the Satellite Union.
"Several faculty members have mentioned that administrators get free tickets," she said. Swartz said she wanted to know who was getting the tickets and where they were getting and why they were getting them.
Susan Wachter, athletic department business manager, sad last week that she did not have final income figures for the first two home games. However, she said she thought the opener against Pittsburgh had raised slightly more than expected and the game had raised slightly less than expected.
KUAC is largely dependent on football revenue for its financial survival.
Susanne Shaw, athletic board chairman, said one thought the monitoring of KUAC's finances was critical.
Shaw also said she would like to see increased support for ticket sales.
"The involvement of students with ticket promotions is important," she said. "Greg Schnacke (student body president) has done a good job with that."
The meeting also will include a report by Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, explaining the Title IX on-campus investigation, which begins today.
Title IX officials to begin review of KU athletics
By ARNE GREEN Staff Reporter
A team of investigators is scheduled to arrive at the University of Kansas today to begin its inquiry into alleged sex discrimination in athletics at KU.
"The review will provide information to finally solve the two complaints pending against the University."
Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, said yesterday that the investigation would be a comprehensive review to determine whether KU is complying with Title IX, the 1972 federal law intended to prohibit sex discrimination in education.
The two complaints were filed with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1978 by Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of Mathematics, Anne Nelson, a 1980 KU graduate.
THE COMPAINTS included alleged discrimination against women's teams in equipment, facilities and availability of practice times.
KU was one of eight universities picked for the first round of probes by the Department of Education. The Department of Education, which assumed jurisdiction over Title IX in May, held 80 institutions to be investigated. All of them have had some complaint filed against them.
KU also was investigated by HEW in 1978, but no action was taken.
THE INTERVIEWS WILL not be restricted to coaches and administrators, she said.
Thomas said a team of three investigators from the Department of Education's regional office in Kansas City, Mo., would meet with Acting Chelan Del Shank; Bob Marcum, athletic director, Thomas and others this morning to explain the investigation.
"Anyone can talk to them," she said. "People will be in touch with our office and we'll try to set up a meeting."
Thomas said the investigation would take about a week.
"It is not rigid," she said. "It depends on how long it takes them to compile the information to supplement the documents and information we already have provided."
The University has been providing the Department of Education with background information.
After the information is collected and analyzed and some determination has been made, the Department of Education must notify the University within 90 days, Thomas said. The athletic department expects to know the results of the investigation by mid-January, she said.
If KU is found not to be in compliance with Title IX, it would have 90 days to make the necessary changes. After that, the University would risk losing its $27 million in federal aid.
Marcum has said that he thinks KU is doing everything possible to comply, given the rules in the game.
Faculty presidents to meet with Carlin
Staff Reporter
Rv CINDICURRIE
Faculty representatives from six Regents schools will have a chance to bargain for a share of the Kansas tax revenue pie at a meeting with Gov. John Carlin on Thursday.
Presidents of the faculty governances of the six schools plan to discuss their universities' salaries, fringe benefits and operating expenses in a 20-minute meeting with Carlin.
FACULTY MEMBERS meeting with Carlin will be George Worth, University of Kansas; Dewayne Backhus, Emporia State University; Sam Wartel, Fort Hays State University; Chuck Hathaway, Kansas State University; Don Kerle, Kansas State University; and Roger Kasten, Wichita State University. The Regents technical Institute at Salina, the seventh Regents school, is not sending a representative.
Worth said the group would meet early
Thursday to decide on topics to discuss with the governor.
He said he would try to bring the Program Maintenance Report, written for the Board of Directors, into the department.
The report, written by Tom Lawson, Board of Regents research officer, shows that faculty salaries at Regents schools are lower than those at other institutions with inflation and salaries in the private sector.
THE REPORT INCLUDES the Regents request for fiscal 1982 to the Kansas Lawyers Association.
The report shows that professors' salaries at KU rank fourth among six other Kansas schools. Assistant professors' salaries at KU ranked fifth out of six.
Worth said he also would use a report compiled by the office of academic affairs that compared the salaries of faculty members from the University to faculty salaries at other Kansas universities.
"I hope we would talk not only about salaries but also about such things as fringe benefits and other operating expenses," he said. "Those are at least as important as salary increases."
Worth said he did not want to spend the entire time talking about faculty salaries.
If the University does not have enough more, or other expenses, he said, faculty members will normally be expected to take up full time.
ONE EXAMPLE, Worth said, was the shorter funds to pay for a new telephone system at the company.
Worth said he did not think there would be enough time to discuss any proposals in detail.
The new phone system, Centrix II, will cost the University more than expected, and administrators have asked faculty to reduce phone use.
"I would like some assurance that the Koren requests for 1980 will receive his support."
'Free' trip brings expensive surprise
By ROSE SIMMONS
Staff Reporter
When Tom Schmitendorf was told by a pleasant voice over the phone that he had won a Las Vegas trip, he thought it was too good to be true. It was.
After $39.94 in service charges was paid, Schmitendorf opened his c.o.d. package two weeks ago to discover that it contained three coupon books and a vacation certificate good for hotel reservations in Las Vegas. To his surprise, he would have to provide his own transportation.
"I was mad when I first opened the package," he said. "I thought I would have time to look over the vacation package before paying the service charge."
Schmitendorf, 1211 Kentucky St., said his mother had paid for the package because she was unable to afford it.
ALTHOUGH SOME VACATION certificate promoters honor the claims they make, others do not deliver the deluxe hotel accommodations.
transportation and free amenities that they suggest they do.
According to Cynthia McClure of the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association, these promoters offer certificates that are designed to make it easier for potential customers to be included in the vacation offer when they are not.
"They really made it sound like something"
Schmittendorf said. "I thought everything was in"
"proportion."
The Bureau of Consumer Protection in Washington, D.C., estimated that about 100 firms offered vacation certificates to consumers last year by telephone or mail.
VACATION CERTIFICATES usually cost consumers $24 to $49 in service charges, according to a report from the Better Business Bureau of southern Nevada. Consumers are always opportunity for a three-day, two-night minivacation; consumers do not always get what they expect.
The vacation certificate that was mailed to Schmitendorf came from Leisure Marketing, Inc. in Miami, FL. La. Leisure Marketing is a sales agent for World Wide Leisure in Miami, said
"Leisure Marketing acts as a broker for us by distributing our gift certificates," she said.
Wendy Lane, reservationist for World Wide Leisure.
Lane said she was unaware of any service charges collected by Leisure Marketing.
The Miami Consumer Protection Agency has received numerous complaints about Leisure Marketing from disgruntled consumers who thought they had been cheated, said Detective Dave Reavis of the Lawrence Police Department.
REAVIS INVESTIGATED the company after Schmittenord filed a complaint with the police.
"leisure Marketing may be using unethical business practices to promote their vacation certificates," Reavis said, "but they aren't" as long as something of value is given, it's legal."
Lane said that if Schmittender were to send his vacation certificate to World Wide with $10, World Wide would arrange reservations for him at a Las Vegas hotel.
"The fee would be refunded when he checked in at the hotel," she said.
See VACATION page 5